Blueberries

Maureen, Dennis and I are supoosed to go blueberry picking again today. We found a nice pick your own blueberry farm a few towns over in Rochester, Mass. The blueberries were almost the size of small grapes and they are all the high bush varietie. Which means, and you will know this if you have ever picked blueberries from low bushes, that everything was at almost eye level which means no aching back at the end of the day!! Plus, they were a very reasonable $1.50 a pound!

Anyway, Dennis uses them for his juice drinks. He bought a really nice juicer to help him eat better and has now gone strawberry and blueberry picking with us this year. He came down that day with a good strawberry/peach concoction he devloped. It was pretty good! After today the next outing will be apple picking in September or October.

We picked 20 pounds of blueberries last time!! I know what your thinking W.T.F? 20 pounds and you need more?! Well, we do. Maureen has made two batches of blueberry jam that she cans, three pies that are in the freezer. A blueberry and yellow squash bread, like zucchini bread but with yellow squash. I was skeptical of how that bread would come out, but I liked it a lot! We also made blueberry ice cream that came out really good! I had her put in whole blueberries at the end of the process and that was a mistake. They are like small ice balls, but they melt in your mouth fast enough. Maybe chocolate chips next time? Chocolate chip bluebery ice cream. That sounds good!

She will make more pies to to keep for later and maybe more jam or maybe she will just freeze the new berries until she is ready to use them. It's up to her.

Blueberry picture above taken by wife Maureen the same day.